Eddystone Lighthouse - References in Literature and Popular Song

References in Literature and Popular Song

• The lighthouse inspired a sea shanty, frequently recorded, that begins "My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light //And he slept with a mermaid one fine night//Out of this union there came three//A porpoise and a porgy and the other was me!" and has been used as a metaphor for stability.

• A novel based on the building of Smeaton's lighthouse, containing many details of the construction, was published in 2005.

• The lighthouse is referenced at the beginning of Chapter 14, "Nantucket", in Herman Melville's epic novel Moby-Dick: "How it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse."

• Clouds over Hoe

• Smeaton`s Tower

• Tinside Pool, Plymouth Sound

• Sunlight through the lantern room

• Smeaton's Lighthouse, now re-erected on Plymouth Hoe.